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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"decorative art"”.
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide an analysis of …
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A decorative art center for New York City
Thesis (B.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
… this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue that a decorative ethos lives on in modernist poetry. Many of the …
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O nacionalismo em Theodoro Braga: posturas e inquietações na construção de uma arte brasileira
Study the artistic path taken by the Brazilian artist, born in the State of Pará, Theodoro José da Silva Braga, or Theodoro Braga (1872-1953), bachelor of Laws, who chose the artistic and teaching career. Graduated by Brazilian National School of Fine Arts (Escola Nacional de Belas Artes – ENBA) in …
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Exploring traditional and metropolitan Indian arts using the Muggu tradition as a case study
… fervent debates about dichotomies in Indian art, articulated variously as high and low art, art and craft, and fine and decorative art. The current avatar of such dichotomies is expressed as a divide between metropolitan and traditional art. The former is understood to be that which is …
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Leonide Massine: Choreographic genius with a collaborative spirit
… in the twentieth century, Leonide Massine was an artist who foresaw and created an idiom of dance that transcend stylistic boundaries. The ballets which Massine produced had a profound effect upon choreographic approaches to dance movement. Massine's ballets also reflect the strong association of …
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The English Rothschild Family in the Vale of Aylesbury: their houses, collections, and collecting activity 1830-1900
… family of seven country houses is explored, in particular the reasons why the family chose to build such residences and to settle in the Vale of Aylesbury. The context of the construction of these houses, their functions, and the family’s aims in building them is considered. The architectural …
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Powerlines : alternative art and infrastructure in Indonesia in the 1990s
… thesis investigates why an alternative visual art and arts infrastructure developed in Indonesia during the 1990s. Initially alternative exhibition spaces developed in response to a lack of outlets through the existing commercial galleries and in reaction to the cultural hegemony of Suharto’s …
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Art in Scale: Barbara Marshall and the Fine-Scale Miniature Movement
… manifests in a way that meets the needs of its participants. This thesis explores one particular miniature development: a fine-scale art movement that flourished in the 1970s and the contributions of one of its patrons, Barbara Marshall. The origins of the contemporary fine-scale movement can be …
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‘The sister arts’: Modern Sculpture and its settings in Britain, c. 1725-1895
… by discussing sculptures as independent works of art, as part of the modern art world led by painters and exhibitions. My publications (since 1983) have promoted a more contextual understanding of the sculpture of this era. I have explored sculpture as an aspect of architectural design and of the …
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The Tradition of Imitative Copying in Chinese Calligraphy
In many cultures, calligraphy is regarded as a decorative art, but in China calligraphy is one of the highest forms of art, in many ways comparable to painting and classical music in the West. No matter the material representation of Chinese calligraphy—paper, silk, wood or bamboo slips, animal …
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The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago
… street, State Street. As one of a number of department stores built. along this commercial street in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Carson-Pirie-Scott was at the center of a transformation of urban life. Rapid change in the scale and character of commercial architecture on State Street …
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La casa internacional de vidrieras Maumejean y su entorno: desde 1862 hasta nuestros días
… como una de las más importantes colecciones de Arte Decorativo sobre vidrieras del mundo. La Casa Internacional de Vidrieras Maumejean, que desarrolló su actividad durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX, es un referente en el sector de la vidriera con más de cinco …
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A Seamless Journey
My quilts serve as a visual journal of some of my travels and experiences. Through my quilts, I remember the rich colors and memories of my European adventures. The methodical process of stitching quilts line by line is an important process for my recollection of the many steps taken during my trip …
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A New Narrative of Historical Styles in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… Closely associated with the architecture and decorative arts of the nineteenth century, it has led to an understanding of historicist objects as being about empty retrospection and a lack of invention, evidence of a temporary lapse in artistic progress before the advent of modernism at the end …